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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






2. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






3. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






4. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






5. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






6. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






7. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






8. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






9. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






10. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






11. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






12. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






13. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






14. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






15. Collection of logically related project activities - usually culminating in the completion of a major deliverable. project phase is a component of the project life cycle






16. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






17. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






18. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






19. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






20. Planning technique used to provide products - services and results that truly reflect customer requirements by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development






21. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






22. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






23. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






24. Processes and activities needed to identify - define - combine - unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups






25. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






26. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.






27. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






28. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






29. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






30. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






31. Process which generates hundreds or thousands of probable performance outcomes based on probability distributions for cost and schedule on individual tasks. the outcomes are used to generate a probability distribution for a project as a whole.






32. Budgeted cost of work performed






33. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






34. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






35. Significant point or event in the project






36. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






37. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration






38. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






39. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






40. Developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities






41. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






42. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






43. Deliverable that is subject to approval by the project sponsor or customer






44. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






45. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






46. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






47. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






48. Reserve






49. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






50. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques